Harvey Fierstein Quotes
I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
-
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
-
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
-
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
-
I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
-
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
-
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
-
I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
-
I just lost interest in performing.
-
Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
-
'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
-
I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
-
I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
-
I'm never in control of my time during the workday.
-
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
-
I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
-
A million years went by quick.
-
The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
-
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
-
Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.
-
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
-
Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program.
-
Our country is in the middle of a profound crisis. This crisis has many causes, but much of it has been brought about by poor leadership decisions at every level of government. In addition, our electoral process is dominated by financial interests that are threatened by the very notion of reform.
-
I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.
